Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling in love. His sister is too busy dating guys in Whitesnake jackets to notice, and his best friend is occupied with his own painful pubescent crisis. Jacob’s mother has just started a curious (and rather un-Christian) holy war with the church across the street, while his father has secretly moved into the garage.Everything changes when Jacob meets Mary. Jacob t...

Henrik Nordmark is a bald, middle-aged security guard with few friends and no romantic possibilities. Tired of being the weed sprouting out of the wallflower, generic in his generality, Henrik has an epiphany. He will have one moment of inimitable distinction, even if it kills him.Henrik first sets out to experience the throes of addiction, then to become virtuous, and barring this to be known as a public menace. Inevitably he resolves to find true love and fails miserably. Along his jour...

"A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them" ( Booklist).In 1930s Russia, an eight-year-old boy named Vladimir is suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary—and often bizarre—treatments in an effort to find a cure.Then Sergei's chief ...

A hilarious coming-of-age novel about the pain of young love, family secrets, and sick ferrets Fifteen-year-old Jacob feels almost on the inside: almost smart, almost funny, almost good-looking, almost worthy of falling in love. His sister is too busy dating guys in Whitesnake jackets to notice, and his best friend is occupied with his own painful pubescent crisis. Jacob's mother has just started a curious (and rather un-Christian) holy war with the church across the street, while his fath...

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to...

Liebe in stürmischen Zeiten: Der Familiengeheimnisroman »Das Echo vergangener Sommertage« von Juliette Mead jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Wenn der Schlüssel zu deinem Glück in der Vergangenheit liegt … Ist sie bereit dafür, eine eigene Familie zu gründen? Bisher war Journalistin Elena vor allem auf ihre Karriere fixiert, aber nun fragt sie sich, ob es sie glücklich machen würde, ein Kind zu bekommen. Vorher will sie aber endlich verstehen, warum ihre eigene Mutter so ein Geheimnis aus ihre...

Steckt das Leben nicht voller Abenteuer? Der Liebesroman »Das Stadthaus in der Charlotte Street« von Juliette Mead als eBook bei dotbooks. Wer aus dem Alltag ausbrechen will, läuft Gefahr, etwas viel Wichtigeres zu verlieren … Lucy und Mark Epstein führen ein entspanntes, aber auch recht langweiliges Familienleben auf dem Land, dem sie manchmal nur allzu gerne entfliehen würden. Als ihre Nachbarn Connie und Julian vorschlagen, sich gemeinsam eine Wochenendwohnung in London zu mieten, schei...

Episode 4 : David et Tiffany se rapprochent. MOURIR GENTIMENT C'est un matin comme les autres lorsque David reçoit la nouvelle fatidique : son cœur est malade, et il ne lui reste plus que quelques mois à vivre… En réfléchissant à la manière d'occuper le peu de temps qu'il lui reste sur Terre, il se rend bien vite compte que ce qu'il souhaite, c'est envoyer valser tous ces gens qui le qualifiaient de "gentil". Jusqu'où ira-t-il pour laisser libre court à la partie sombre de lui-même ?

Episode 2 : David doit répondre devant son patron de ses mauvais résultats récents. MOURIR GENTIMENT C'est un matin comme les autres lorsque David reçoit la nouvelle fatidique : son cœur est malade, et il ne lui reste plus que quelques mois à vivre… En réfléchissant à la manière d'occuper le peu de temps qu'il lui reste sur Terre, il se rend bien vite compte que ce qu'il souhaite, c'est envoyer valser tous ces gens qui le qualifiaient de "gentil". Jusqu'où ira-t-il pour laisser libre court...

Episode 1 : David reçoit une nouvelle qui le pousse à remettre en question ses choix de vie. MOURIR GENTIMENT C'est un matin comme les autres lorsque David reçoit la nouvelle fatidique : son cœur est malade, et il ne lui reste plus que quelques mois à vivre… En réfléchissant à la manière d'occuper le peu de temps qu'il lui reste sur Terre, il se rend bien vite compte que ce qu'il souhaite, c'est envoyer valser tous ces gens qui le qualifiaient de "gentil". Jusqu'où ira-t-il pour laisser li...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...